摘要：NURSING has always been essential to and part of medical care andl as such is a concern of the medical librarian. Along with medicine and all the health professions and sciences, nursing has changed greatly in recent years with the advances in science and technology and the resultant new methods and patterns of patient care. Ever since the development of modern nursing, the nurse has become increasingly responsible for many decisions and procedures once carried out only by the physician. She must understand increasingly complex treatments and medications and new methods of prevention and rehabilitation both in and out of the hospital. Increased demands for nursing services of all kinds have resulted in greater use of practical nurses and nursing aides, as well as the use of parttime personnel, all of which have added to the responsibilities of the professional nurse as an administrator. Multidisciplinary patient care requires that all members of the health team know more of the work of their colleagues and of interprofessional and interpersonal relationships. Nurses are engaged in research in a wide variety of nursing and multidisciplinary projects; they are identifying a body of nursing knowledge and principles needed to build firmer foundations on which to base nursing practice. Concurrently education for nursing, as for medicine and related disciplines, is changing, and new patterns and programs are being developed to prepare personnel to meet the challenges and problems of modern nursing.
